LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Shore-boats
Thirteen Medals for Gallantry RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY On the 28th August, 1941, determined efforts were made to rescue the crew of a British aeroplane which had crashed in the sea.
MR. DERRICK H. BAYNHAM was awarded the silver...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
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Category: Advertisement
The Secretary Retires
COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.
He came to the Institution...
Category: Committee
Zippalong
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.25 on the morning of the 1st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Holdernidd had wirelessed that she was towing the motor yacht Zippalong, of Boston, and was making for Cromer. She asked if the life...
Liverpool Students on Board New Brighton Life-Boat
(see page 762). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
Category: Articles
Passat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1952, a resident at Leigh-on-Sea reported a yacht run ashore off Leigh, with her mainsail gone and seas washing right over her. A rough sea was running, with a strong south...
Lewisham Branch
The bowls club of Britannic House, the London headquarters of British Petroleum, held an invitation tournament in August. It was in aid of the RNLI and this photograph shows the players launching their bowls towards the centre of the green... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Plawsworth
On the 17th January the s.s. Plawsworih, of Newcastle, stranded off Workington, and thirteen of the crew were rescued by the motor life-boat.—Rewards, bronze medal, thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and monetary rewards...